So I just got proof via e-mail that a retail account on the West Coast has done something I consider unethical (and that certainly isn’t within the intent of the marketing program involved) with the help of the local district sales manager.

The district manager doesn’t seem to think there’s anything wrong with the action.

The person here that I have ( Read more... )

I've been thinking this recently myself. (link will open as pop-up)

In a world conditioned for instant gratification, just how fast can we expect mercy to be? 

...a day to play, all by myself, in warm sunlight?
...a walloping, earth-shattering rip-roaring drunk with my best friends, and two days to recover from it?
...to hide under the blankets with a couple of teddy bears and not come out for a week?
...a swift kick in the tail?

...I don't know what...

( Whine alert. Deal with it. )

So the Sponge-in-law (and props to ardenkris  for the great term of reference!) comes by last night to pick up some stuff.

Let's see, he lived at my place for a full year and couldn't find work.

I booted his butt out less than two months ago, and now he's working 30+ hours/week.

Funny, that.

(removes lollipop stick from self)

How can someone "wash" dishes in such a manner that the bottle of dish soap is left dirty on the outside?

And then consider the dishes "washed" in such a manner clean?

I am not sure which annoys me more: stupidity, or discourtesy.

Let this be a lesson to me: I should not check my work e-mail on Sunday evening unless I absolutely, POSITIVELY HAVE to.

Why? Because now I'm sitting here in a mood, neither getting anything done nor getting myself off to bed.

( annoying and petty work politics )

Chuck (Dan's brother) moved into my basement at the beginning of June. He'd been working as a live-in caretaker and got suddenly told that his job was over and he needed to move his stuff. I've been aware for as long as I've known him that his social skills aren't exactly up to snuff, so I figured they'd just had enough of each other.

In the past ( Read more... )